User blog comment:Anobi/Alternate Timeline Theory/@comment-5621513-20140721183325/@comment-6769189-20140802045404

Yea it gets a lil whacky with DMC sometime. First was the DMC1 novel, which has any scene involving adult Dante and Gilver non-canon, but only because it was once canon, but mostly replaced by DMC3, whos manga is canon except for the extended scene with Arkham meeting Vergil isnt canon. then there is the DMC2 novel which isnt confirmed canon but it doesnt contradict anything nor is anything happening during that time. then there is a CD Drama that takes place during the Anime that reveals when Patty met Trish, that Patty found Agni and Rudra in a closet and that they met Morrison before and that Dante still has Alastor and sometime he does stuff all on his own, and more. but its only in japanese.

as for Nero, i liked him from the very beginning. everyone else was mad because Dante wasnt the starring role. the more the merrier i say. Nero provided an emotional side to DMC. when most people said he was a whiney bitch i was all like "almost everything he has known is a lie and isnt just falling apart, a lot of it is turning against him AND he is contstantly left literally inches away from saving the girl he loves. and hes the only one who can/is trying to save her. i think hes aloud to break down once or twice. and he still gets back up" he adds some raw emotion, he doesnt cover it up or try to, because he didnt have to growing up

if you look at it, Nero is what Dante would have been if he wasnt left all alone. Credo is his Vergil, Kyrie what Dante never had and might never have because(i believe) he is more emotionally damaged than he lets on. i think Lady was almost his Kyrie, but she was broken too so it didnt happen.